Attorneys Leading the Way

Davis Brown attorneys, alongside peers from the Des Moines metro area, participated in a “Jury Improvement Lunch” on March 12 organized by New York University School of Law’s Civil Jury Project.

Three federal judges, including the Chief Judge in the Southern District of Iowa, and three Iowa District Court judges, including the Chief Judge in the 5th District, attended and participated in a panel discussion of their observations on jury trials and why there are fewer jury trials than there were 50 years ago.

The Civil Jury Project at NYU is dedicated to studying civil jury trials. The goal of the project is to find out why civil jury trials are vanishing, whether this is a bad thing, and if so, what can be done to avoid their extinction.